• Spaceape@lemmy.nrsk.noOP
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    1 year ago

    I find it curious that this have seemingly been worked on for decades and that the book was published years before the recent hearings that brought up the incident again. It could either support the claim as an independent third party, but could as easily be the source of the claims as well.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a big concern for me. Either “everything” is true or nothing is seems to be one set of extreme outcomes. I mean what if it were all true? Mind blown.

      I have to wonder if he’s mixed in some things like this in this media interviews to have some plausible deniability. “Oh, yeah, I read that somewhere.” As in “I was never divulging secrets publically, just relating things I believe to be true from the public domain”. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t know the real info as well.

      Edit: sorry, I wanted to finish this thought. What I am saying is when he got clearance to talk publicly about these things, he was cleared because nothing he said he wanted to discuss was classified. He could have easily cited various ufology books and articles as the source of his information. That leaves him free to speak to the media (raising awareness and ensuring he had a public profile) while also talking in SCIFs about the actual info.